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• Auction House:
  Cordy's
• Sale Name:
  July 2016 Art and Antique Auction
• Sale Date:
  19 Jul 2016 ~ 10am (NZ time) - Lots 1 - 345
  19 Jul 2016 ~ 5pm (NZ time) - Lots 350 - 627
• Lot #:
  115
• Lot Description:
  An Inuit serpentine carving
  of a hunter in a kayak with seal bodies on the deck, with bone paddle, harpoon, gaff and leather thongs. Length 300.
• Provenance:
  Gifted to the vendor's father, a doctor practicing between 1954-58 at the Mountain Sanatorium ('The San').
• Notes:
  The Mountain Sanatorium ('The San') was an isolation hospital for tuberculosis (TB) at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Inuit patients resident for treatment periods of around two months used serpentine gathered from a lake and creeks within the grounds of The San to use as material for these carvings which were gifted to staff in appreciation for their recovery from TB.
• Estimate:
  NZ$1,200 - 1,200
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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